Kong: Skull Island - 10th March

Tom Hiddleston and Brie Larson head to the uncharted Skull Island only to find that they are encroaching on the domain of the mighty and mythical Kong in the latest retelling of the monster movie.

The story launches King Kong into Legendary Pictures' cinematic universe that will see Kong taking on Godzilla in 2020, with Godzilla vs. Kong, as Skull Island gets its 'summer blockbuster' movie in early with a March release.

Expect big performances from Hiddleston and Larson, lashings of CGI, and with the likes of Samuel L. Jackson and John C. Reilly in the cast - a well acted and enjoyable monster flick that you don't tend to see much these days.

Life - 24th March

A sci-fi horror set aboard a space station as a crew discover extraterrestrial life which turns out to be intelligent and deadly. Sound familiar? With Alien: Covenant coming out in May, Ridley Scott may have already had his crown stolen by then.

Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson and Ryan Reynolds are among the space crew who discover the single-celled organism, only for it to grow rapidly and terrifyingly, as they attempt to kill it before it heads Earthwards.

With the impressive cast, this could be the claustrophobic and chilling space horror that Alien fans have been desperate for since the first Alien movie startled audiences all the way back in 1979.

Ghost In The Shell - 31st March

Much has been made of the adaptation of the much-loved Japanese manga sci-fi crime drama adaptation since it was announced in 2014 that Scarlett Johansson would play the lead role amid accusations of whitewashing.

Johansson plays cyborg The Major, a counter-cyberterrorist field commander who must take down a dangerous new threat that is attempting to sabotage Hanka Robotics' artificial intelligence technology.

If director Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman) is able to capture the magic of the original Japanese manga series, and its 1995 anime film, which is regarded among the greatest anime films of all time, then we might be in for something really special.

Get Out - 17th March

Jordan Peele, one half of popular Comedy Central sketch comedy duo Key & Peele, makes his surprising writing and directing debut with this satirical horror which sees a young black guy visit his white girlfriend's affluent family on their estate.

Brit Daniel Kaluuya - who impressed in the 'Fifteen Million Merits' episode of Black Mirror plays Chris - who finds things more unusual and unnerving the longer he spends on the estate, including the behaviour of the few fellow black people that he encounters.

Unsettling and disconcerting, the film has been noted for its reflection on current race issues, while also managing to effectively deliver the scares in what could be the scariest horror film of the year.